329 E 15th st
Nov 26th  1894
Dear Julia
I am glad to hear you are well,
and willing to be a sojourner
in the land - the possibility of
life grown greater as we grow
older, I think if I could go back
thirty years, I should be like some
bodys sister - "sublime, beautiful
and paint in water colors".
And it pleases me to say, that I
never see your verse now, that
it does not strike as being on a par
with so much of the present verse,
but far superior and Stoddard has





perceived thy also - Your Fallow
Field may rank with any poem
here - I write very little - my last
poem, a new departure, was in the
May Atlantic Achilles in Orcus
which my dear old boy admired
much.  Since I have seen you so
little, there is a new combination
in my life - Lorimer, who has already
made himself known among his betters,
and elders - this week, Mansfield is
acting in his play of Napoleon Bonaparte
in Boston, and this morning the papers
noticing it have been sent me, and
I judge that he had very great applause,
cheered to the echo, called out at the end
of every act.  Had Lorimer been an
experienced playwright he would





not have constructed the play on
the lives he has, instead of making
it episodal, he would have made
it concrete - He was severely criticized
here, when it was brought out, but has
been more fairly treated in Boston.
Besides - Lorry made a contact to play
himself the whole season on the road
he was not able to rehearse, and im-
prove it.  He is making a success in the
play of The Amazons.  You see I am
very egotistic for him. And how is your
Harry who forsook letters for business.
I hope he does not love money too
much, all the same I wish I had
some.  We have one celebrity.  Stoddard
is the poorest literary man of note in
America.  Poor Emma [Lambarn ?] , her
husband I fear never will be well





She worried him so, that he had
to go away and be with her sister.
We jog on much in the old way -
read, read - Thursday last we
went to Philadelphia where
Stoddard read his forth coming
Christmas poem, before the Century Club.
He has a way of his own, in reading
which is very effective - but alas
he is very blind, and when he
get nervous, seems to lose his eye
sight altogether, which makes me
nervous and lost.  Remember me to
your handsome daughter -
And believe me yours truly
Elizabeth Stoddard






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